I'm a Dad!!!

drewfromrisca

I'm still riding on the massive high of becoming a parent!!! Wife gave birth to our daughter on Wed, called her Eva Lily.

When you hear/see people saying 'best thing ever done/feeling ever' I always used to think yeah yeah :roll: but I have to admit IT IS!!!!!

cornerblock

Congratulations to you and your wife, and a warm welcome to Eva Lily.

jellybellywmb

Congatulations, savour every moment they grow up very quickly.

ratsbeyfus

Well done to you and the mum. Grab every spare second of sleep you can get... cycling will soon become one of the least exhausting aspects of your life!

unixnerd

Now, about her first bike.............

Zachariah

drewfromrisca wrote:

Wife gave birth to our daughter on Wed, called her Eva Lily.

Yes, but what did you call your daughter?

Congratulations! Be prepared to discover previously undreamt-of levels of tolerance for vomit, food and excrement on your person.

gwillis

Congratulations to you both and a lovely name too.

bompington

Congratulations, there's nothing like it.
Only piece of advice I have for parenting: what you need is stamina - just never, ever give up. One other thing - the more you are willing to give (to baby and Mum) the more you get out of it.
Now, you need Islabikes

Anonymous

Well done, welcome to the dad club, it's great.

Frank the tank

jellybellywmb wrote:

Congatulations, savour every moment they grow up very quickly.

+1 to that, and hope you're all well.

My children are now 24 and 22.

I remember asking Mrs Tank "Where did all that child benefit go" ?

shouldbeinbed

Congratulations, its a real rollercoaster, when are you having the next one? You'll get plenty of baby rearing advice, ignore it & go with your guts and buy Mrs DFR a cabbage - the leaves are very soothing

gregster10217

Congratulations, it is a great feeling. Second one coming up for 6 months now, and struggling to remember my 4 year old at that age so enjoy every second.

popularname

Brilliant news - it just gets better and better...

Zachariah

shouldbeinbed wrote:

buy Mrs DFR a cabbage - the leaves are very soothing

Just don't smoke them in front of the baby.

johnboy183

dmclite wrote:

Well done, welcome to the dad club, it's great.

+1 from me

drewfromrisca

Cheers everyone, we've been sleeping most of the day, it was a difficult nite shall we say I'm off to get cabbage leaves tomorrow funnily enough!!!

Still excited about it! Can't stop staring at her

TMR

Congratulations!

Our son arrived in October last year - he's still not sleeping through! Get used to surviving on 5 (broken) hours...

Oh, take loads of video/photos as well. It's incredible how quickly their little faces change.

DCowling

Congratulations

Dunkindiver

Now you will understand the true meaning of love!

Don't be fooled by the parents who claim their babies sleep from 7pm tp 7am, they are deluded form a lack of sleep. Just look into their eyes to see the 200m stare!

tlw1

popularname wrote:

Brilliant news - it just gets better and better...

+1 (well mine are currently 3 & 6 - so it might change)

SickAsAParrot

Neither of my children slept through until they started with solid foods at 3 and 4 months respectively, then it all happens like magic!

(I'm talking about a bit of very runny baby rice or dissolved rusks, not sausages and chips)

Anonymous

Congratulations

My first slept 13hrs a night right from the off. 2nd wasn't too bad either. That's just the wives though, the babies were up all night.